painstaking
adjEtymology
From pains + taking; see take pains. The /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋ/ pronunciation which dominates in the United States suggests a reanalysis of the word as pain + staking.
Definitions
Carefully attentive to details
Carefully attentive to details; studious; diligent in performing a process or procedure.
- All these painstaking men, considered together, may be said to have completed another species of criticism.
The application of careful and attentive effort.
- I esteeme Bocace his Decameron, Rabelais, and the kisses of John the second (if they may be placed under this title) worth the paines-taking to reade them.
- It is not by a flight of imagination that you gain the ascents of spiritual experience. It is by the toils and the watchings and the painstakings of a solid obedience.
- Behold what an abundant recompense attends the small processes of the earth, with the help of a little warm air; and what wealthy returns the industry of the husbandman and the florist is preparing from a few seeds and painstakings.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at painstaking. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at painstaking. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at painstaking
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA